Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be […]
Peace Quotes
Observer good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
The servants of the All -Merciful are those who go about the earth with gentleness, and when the foolish ones address them, they answer, “Peace!” (25:63)
In the night we stumble over things and become acutely conscious of their separateness, but the day reveals the unity which embraces them. And the man whose inner vision is bathed in consciousness at once realizes the spiritual unity which reigns over all racial differences, and his mind no longer stumbles over individual facts, accepting […]
A peace establishment ought always to have two objects in view; the one, present security of posts and of stores, and the public tranquillity; the other, to be prepared, if the latter is impracticable, to resist with efficacy the sudden attempts of a foreign or domestic enemy.
These endured all and gave all that justice among nations might prevail and that mankind might enjoy freedom and inherit peace.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
The time for peace has come. We, the soldiers who have returned from battles stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes… we who have come from a land where parents bury their children… we say today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. […]
Peace is not a passive but an active virtue. Our Lord never said, “Blessed are the peaceful,” but “Blessed are the peacemakers.”
Peace is a very great good. The statement is commonly attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Peace is not merely the absence of warfare but the presence of justice.” St. Augustine said it first in speaking of peace as tranquillitas ordinis. Right order is always in short supply. And there will always be disagreement over […]
